Digital Photography

The George Eastman Museum holds over 400,000 photographs that represent all stages of the medium and processes from 1839 to present. There are over 8,000 photographers represented. Not all items in the collection are digital (but it looks like just over 130,000 photographs are), so it is advisable to use the advanced search and click "image available".

Based in New York City, the ICP was established in 1974. It was founded to promote images that are socially and politically minded, In other words, it is an archive of "concerned photography." There ar better than 86,000 items in the collection. Searches are aided by the use of quotes to preserve a particular word order or the use of operations such as AND or OR. Dots can be used to specify date ranges 2000...2022. There is no indication of copyright status of the photos, but presumably either the individual artists or the IPC own the rights.

The Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Online Catalog includes several digital collections by prominent US photographers including Ansel Adams. The database also features a wide variety of materials from portraits of presidents to photographs of Southern Architecture. Most collections focus on US History and/or were taken by photojournalists active in recording key moments in the United States' past.

Columbia College Chicago provides a digital collection of 17,000 works by over 1,950 artists. It includes a number of educator resources as well. Records of individual photographs often include artist bios. Presumably individual artists retained their copyrights.

The collection features over 250,000 images. The advanced search will allow one to search by artist, sitter, and several other filters. Clicking any given photo will include a button that will reveal the respective rights for that photo, if available, or a from to request licensing. The focus of the collection is notable individuals from Britain. Some photographs were commissioned to document British society.